Brother Quote by Carles Puyol

I didn't want to be a goalkeeper in the beginning because my dad and uncle used to play in goal and I knew how…

— Willy Caballero

When I was nine or ten, I had a chat with my coach and I asked if I could play in goal. I started…

— Ederson

Obviously, I couldn't imagine that my career would go so well. When I first started, I wanted to play out of goal. But there…

— Manuel Neuer

The team I used to play for as a kid, we changed goalkeeper every game. Finally I went in goal and we won -…

— Willy Caballero

I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put…

— Hope Solo

I started playing in goal because I 'struggled to run as fast as the strikers and the other players out there. I was 10…

— Ederson

I wasn't a goalkeeper until I was 13 or 14 so before that, my heroes were the likes of Paul Scholes and David Beckham,…

— Jack Butland

I was five when my uncle, who also coached my brother, took me to the local pitches. That's where my passion for goalkeeping began.

— Gianluigi Donnarumma

I didn't always want to be a goalkeeper, but I didn't have much of a future further up the pitch.

— Edouard Mendy

I turned goalkeeper. My father had been one and we had a goal in the back garden. He'd taught me a bit about it…

— Simon Mignolet

I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I was an 18-year-old lad playing in a Scottish League Cup final at Hampden in front of 60,000 against Celtic. That's an experience I…

— James Maddison